Non-sticking electrosurgical device having nickel tips

• US 5,196,009 A
• Filed: 09/11/1991
• Issued: 03/23/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kirwan Surgical Products, LLC
• Original Assignee: Kirwan Surgical Products, Inc. (Kirwan & Associates, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kirwan, Lawrence T. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cohen, Lee S.
• Application Number:
  US07/757,575
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 606/41, 606/42, 606/45, 606/48-52
• US Class Current: 606/51
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1402 Probes for open surgery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 18/1442 Probes having pivoting end effectors, e.g. forceps

Abstract

A non-sticking set of bipolar forceps manufactured by forming the first and second blade portions from nickel.

Claims

1. A microsurgical bipolar forceps comprising elongated, unitary, coined, all nickel first and second blade portions and first and second housing portions, each of the blade portions having first and second terminal ends the first blade portion positioned within the first housing portion and the second blade portion positioned within the second housing portion, the first terminal end providing a tip and the second terminal end providing a connector pin, and the first and second blade portions capable of carrying an electric current, the first housing portion overmolded and covering a major portion of the first blade portion and the second housing portion overmolded and covering a major portion of the second blade portion, the connector pin of each of the blade portions adapted to engage an electrical socket.